Kathleen Eager-Ariz, LPC

Kathleen Eager-Ariz brings a calm, pragmatic approach to therapy, helping people navigate the demands of work, school, parenting, and everyday life without losing sight of what matters. She emphasizes the value of pausing to check in with emotions, habits, and intuition as a way to reconnect with purpose and increase presence. This reflective process can help identify when day-to-day effort has become exhausting or when expectations are undermining well-being.

Kathleen holds a belief in each person’s capacity for resilience and growth, while recognizing that trauma or long-standing patterns can make change feel out of reach. Therapy, as she frames it, is an exploration of what keeps someone stuck and a collaborative effort to find practical paths forward. She has worked with people experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, life transitions, relationship challenges, and parenting concerns, using a supportive, solution-oriented style.

She is a LPC, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, practicing in Texas with three years of clinical experience. Kathleen’s manner is friendly, passionate, and authentic, and she tailors evidence-based modalities to each person’s needs. Her approaches include psychodynamic work and a range of therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with other client-centered and solution-focused techniques to address symptoms and strengthen coping skills.